Electric cigar-lighting device.



PATENTBD PDEG. 1, 1903.

J. W. GRM,l K ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 20, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES ZPatented Decem'her 1, 1903.

PATENT Fries.

JOHN W. GRAY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO I-I. E. PYBURN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

lEtnici-snr; 'cierta-LIGHTING Device.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,600, dated December 1, 1903. Application filed April 20v, 1903. Serial No. 153,453. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. GRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State-of California, have invented an Improvement in Electric Cigar-Lighting Devices; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device which is designed for the convenient supply and ignition of gas to be temporarily used for lighting cigars and like purposes.

It consists of a standard and support adapted to be fixed to the wall or other convenient point, a cone tting a corresponding recess in the support having a handle by which it is turnable, a means for supplying a jet of gas through the standard and cone and through a projection on the opposite side from the handle, electrical contacts carried by the handle and by an insulated post, so that When the handle is turned to complete the electrical contacts this action will first open the gassupply port and in time to allow the gas to reach the point of electrical contact, so that it will be ignited when such contacts are made and broken.

My invention also comprises a spring for returning the handle after the operation is completed and details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a front View with section on line a: fr, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line fu fu, Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, A is the base,

adapted to be secured to the wall or other fixed support. This base has a projection or standard 2, and to this standard is pivoted a handle 3. I prefer to make a conical bore in the standard and a correspondingly-shaped journal 5 turnable in said bore. This jour: nal has a screw-threaded end projecting upon the opposite side of lthe standard, and by means of locking-nuts it may be drawn up, so as to maintain a close joint between the interior surfaces. The standard has a passage made through it for the admission of gas, as shown at 6, and a corresponding opening is bored longitudinally in the cone and adapted to register with the opening 6 when the handle is turned in the direction required to produce the light. This passage 7 continues into the handle 3, and the handle has an extension 8 on the opposite side of the cone which forms its center of motion. The passage 7 is continued through this extension, which extension has a turn at right angles, as shown. The end of the extension is cut away or formed into a semicircular channel 9, and into this channel the gas which passes through the passage `'7 is discharged. The edges of this semicircular portion serve to make and break the contact by which the lighting is effected.

l0 is a-post fixed to the base and insulated therefrom, and one electrical wire is connected with this post and the other with the metal standard 2, and through it with the arm 3 and its extension. At the upper end of the post is fixed a contact, which is preferably elastic and may he made in any suitable or desired lform. This contact is represented at ll and stands in such position that when the handle 3 is turned to pass this contact the edges of the semicircular channel 9 will make and break contact with the point ll, and thus ignite the gas.

' The channel through which the connection is made between the passage 6 in the standard and the opening 7 in the coneis elongated, so that when thehandle is turned this elongated portion admits gas and continues to do so until the electrical contacts have been cornpleted. This allows the gas ample time to pass through the length of the passage 7 and to discharge into and through the channel 9, so that by the time the handle has been turned sufficiently to make the contact and produce the spark there will be a sufficient quantity of gas to be ignited. Gas will continue to discharge as long as the handle remains in this position, either for the .purposeof lighting a cigar'orfor other purposes Where gas is temporarily needed.

The end of the spindlewhich forms a continuation of the cone 5 has coiled upon it a spring v12, one end of which is fixed to the spindle and the other to some hired part of the apparatus, so that the tension of the spring will be increased when the handleis moved IOO to produce the light, and when the handle is released the spring will return the parts to their normal position.

13 is a cap which screws upon the end of a circular projection from the post 2, and thus incloses and protects the spring and the locking-nuts which retain the parts in position.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y l. The combination in a gas supply and lighting device, of a base and standard having a gas-supply passage; a conical socket disposed upon the base and into which said passage opens; a handle having a cone projecting from it and turnable in said socket, said handle extending from one side of the cone and an extension of the handle beyond the opposite side of said cone, said extension having its outer end turned substantially parallel with the axis of the cone and said extension having a gas-passage through it and connecting with the passage in the cone; electrical contact connected with the handle and a fixed part; and contact-points carried by the handle extension and said lxed part whereby gas supplied through the extension is ignited.

2. An apparatus for supplying and lighting gas, consisting of a fixed standard having a conical transverse bore, a handle having a cone projecting from one side and turnable in said bore, said handle having an extension on the opposite side of the cone bent at right angles, and an open segmental channel at the end of the extension, a passage leading from said channel through the extension into the cone, a similar passage leading through the standard in which the cone is turnable and an elongated channel connection between the two passages, whereby the turning of the handle will continue to supply gas therethrough, an electrical connection with the standard and handle, an insulated post having a second electrical connection, and a contact-point standing in the line of movement of the channeled end of the extension whereby the gas supplied through said channel will be ignited when the contacts are made and broken.

3. A gas supply and lighting device consisting of a xed standard, a passage in said standard through which gas is transmitted, a conical socket in which the gas-passage terminates, a handle having a cone fitting and turnable in the conical socket and an extension on the opposite side of the cone, a passage extending through the cone and the extension terminating in a segmental open channel at the end of the extension into which gas is delivered when the gas-passages are caused to register by turning the handle, an

electrical connection with the standard and the handle, an insulated post having an electrical connection and carrying an electrical contact with which the edges of the open channel form a contact as they pass whereby the gas is ignited, a returning-spring xed to the spindle of the cone, and a casing within which said spring is inclosed.

In witness whereofI have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN W. GRAY. Witnesses:

S. H. NoURsE, JEssIE C. BRODIE. 

